The Star

puppy love

Giddyup - My friend Debbie is an avid horse freak! I couldn't pass up the novelty horses to make this attic windows hanging for her!

Monica's BOM - This is a pieced and appliqued BOM that I quilted for Monica. It was her first applique!

Rosewood

Dragonfly Line-up - Purchased a continuous line applique pattern and fabric kit, free-motioned the applique using my BSR.

So Charming - I used Amy Butler's Charming Line completed the entire quilt in a weekend, including 20 hours of quilting on my Bernina!

Tropical Harmony - I made this in 2006 for the Hoffman Challenge but didn't finish it in time to send in. I think we all recognize the pattern! :)

Oriental Mish Mash - Quick, easy, beautiful quilt with Oriental Fabrics. It is very elegant and has a beautiful green backing.

Forever

Riz' Fish Tank; Destroyed in home fire 1/2009. - My sister always wanted a fishtank in her office at work, but she was working for the government, and with the energy costs, they were not allowed any personal items that used power...so I made her a fishtank that required no electricity... Unfortunately this quilt was destroyed in a home fire in January 2009. :- (

Batik Double Wedding Ring - Trinora made two of these as wedding quilts for her sons. She completely pieced each one in a week. They are beautiful quilts!

Hope for Margie - Made as a prayer quilt for my neice as she went through Chemotherapy last year. Batik fabrics used and tied. Each tie was knotted by friends and family with a prayer. She is doing super now. All her treatment is finished.

Long Road

Silk Spun Kimonos - Paper pieced from pattern in book, Rich Traditions. I arranged differently than in the book. Most of the fabrics silks are from an antique chest that belonged my great, great grandmother and great aunts who completed a crazy quilt in late 1890's. I put deep blue silk tafetta sashing from scraps of g.g. g'mother's wedding dress. Started to quilt with silk thread, but didn't finish yet. It's hanging in my bedroom. I love the secondary design.

Timeless

A Flower for Christmas - My guild (River City Quilters) in Sacramento sponsored a workshop by Jennie Rayment last fall for a 3-dimensional sunflower wall hanging. I decided to use Christmas colors. It was really fun learning something entirely new, and I added a few red beads for a little sparkle.

Picaso was a quilter - I made this for the 2002 Southern Stars Quilt Guild challenge. It won. I used to work in Chicago, right across from City Hall and the famous Picaso sculpture. The idea popped into my head, "What if Picaso's 'Woman' had sisters, and they were on a quilting vacation in south Florida?"